The writings of John Snyders, mostly about software.

Category: Java

I shouldn’t care about this because I don’t use JavaFX. But it bugs me so I’ll rant a bit. A while ago (probably around version 1.2) the language caught my eye. I especially liked its literal declarative syntax for creating tree structures and data binding. I thought I heard that Oracle was discontinuing JavaFX but […]

I created a blog on dev2dev. I’ll put my work related stuff there and continue to write about my personal projects and interests here. The WLS 10.3 Tech Preview is available now. I worked on the WLS Console so I wrote about how best practices in web app presentation layer helped improve performance.

I have never been a fan of JavaServer Pages (JSP) but I have used them on a few projects. When JSP Documents (JSPs with XML syntax) were added in version 1.2 I thought if you had to do JSP then JSP Documents were the way to go. I prefer the uniform XML syntax to all […]

Sometimes things seem so obvious once you learn them the hard way that you wonder why there aren’t big signs everywhere making it clear from the start. The HTML button element is useless when used with a server side controller. I got my information on the button element from the HTML specification and was happily […]

Developers accustomed to internationalizing Java [web] applications are very familiar with ResourceBundle, MessageFormat and property files. The articles Localization and Internationalization with StringTemplate and Web Application Internationalization and Localization in Action give a good introduction to how StringTemplate can be used to do i18n but they donâ€™t explain how to get the full set of […]

For many years I enjoyed working on the Windows platform writing applications in C++, Win32, MFC and ATL/WTL. I was not an early Java adopter. I had taken a Java course but continued to work in C++. More and more of my friends had made the switch to Java and told me how much they […]